1 Dinar - Abu Bakr Qaratuz

Wakhsh was a minor administrative district in the upper Oxus valley — present-day Tajikistan — that briefly asserted autonomous coinage rights in the early thirteenth century as Ghurid central authority fragmented. Abu Bakr Qaratuz was a local governor operating within that vacuum. Within two decades, the entire region was obliterated by the Mongol advance; coins struck here in this period are among the few material traces of a political order that was simply erased.